Military personnel, believed to be Russian servicemen, walk outside the territory of a Ukrainian military unit in the village of Perevalnoye outside Simferopol today. Photo: Reuters
How Ukraine Wins -- Benjamin Jensen, US News and World Report
Here are 4 things the country must do to ultimately prevail against Russia.
Imagine if U.S. citizens awoke to find their entire navy and majority of their air force gone without a shot fired, seized by special operators posing as "concerned citizen groups." This is the situation confronting Ukraine’s Maidan leadership. 40,000 Russian troops stand poised to invade Eastern Ukraine and conduct a lightening assault towards Kiev. Ukrainian military and police operations to clear roadblocks and occupied buildings in the East continue to stall. Each day new pro-Russian protests break out and "concerned groups" appear with game-changing weapons like surface-to-air missiles. Russia appears to be heeding the age-old Sun Tzu adage to win without fighting.
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My Comment: There are many assumptions in this post that I disagree with. One .... Ukraine is more in conflict with themselves .... Russia is just taking advantage of the situation and doing a very good job at exploiting these divisions. Two .... everyone knows how expensive and costly such a conflict will be .... but everyone also knows that if this crisis evolves into a Bosnian type of civil war .... the cost would be even greater. Three .... taking the fight to Moscow is not going to work. People do not live in a cocoon anymore in Russia .... everyone knows what is happening in Ukraine .... if not through the media .... through their friends and family who live in Ukraine.
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